How do you keep your pvp spark going?

I dont play a lot but I feel like things got kind of stale. Theres a new beta map but its the same maps and mode for a while. Team compositions usually have the same classes and builds and rewards are the same things theyve been for a while. I do Like Guild wars 2 a lot but I feel like its hard to be excited to play it when in ways so little changes. How do you guys stay excited for Guild wars 2 pvp?

Admittingly this season is the first Ive sat out, Ive hit a stage where I only log in if I see friends on discord playing gw2 and they happen to be doing pvp.
If theyre already duo together then I play something else.

Sometimes I think Anet doesn't realise why people play games. Seems to be a forgotten concept to play games with friends and to have fun... All about that grind and self worth now.

Not to brag, but I put together a puzzle in 4 days and the box said 2-4 years.
Please allow team queue with rewards again at our own discretion.
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Pick a class, choose the most unused but fun to play things, make a build that works around them, enjoy trolling in pvp
Bonus: angry player raging at you in map chat because you beat em with a trash build

@NecroSummonsMors.7816 said:
Pick a class, choose the most unused but fun to play things, make a build that works around them, enjoy trolling in pvp
Bonus: angry player raging at you in map chat because you beat em with a trash build

Remind me when I beaten leg mirages and soulbeast with a core mesmer and then asking for "secret" build
Dont think anything fun is left for me. From highest build diversity among all classes mesmer hit the bucket with only 1 build and everyone cry about it (I dont like it either), a lot of fun, right ?

My 'Spark' comes from all the negativity from other players. Wow, has it gotten bad! All kidding aside, the skill of a lot of these players now is novice at best--but their ability to hurl insults in open /map /team or even whispers (and then have the audacity to /anon afterwords) is straight META. Its so bad, people are already deciding if they are going to AFK at spawn if they don't like 1 class on their team (especially if its a core class), or if the opposing team 'seems' to have better classes.

But I still play, just as I have since Season 1. When I feel like testing out my 'personal' pvp skills, I hit up WvW, and solo roam. I must say, most ppl in WvW have better manners. They don't +1 on duels....they have not attacked people that do not have a mount (myself included). They are less toxic. Its a shame really that WvW is so neglected by Anet--I don't go there much, but it has a lot of potential to be great--most of it coming from the ppl that play their.

The game's great. I can handle class imbalance, team imbalances, losing streaks, etc. It's just the way that people treat each other in PvP that suck the fun out of the game. I have a loooong block list, but it keeps growing every time I queue.

I keep it going for all the rewards I get even for losing. All that gold and grandmaster marks as well as reward track progress is awesome, plus that llama box at the end. Nothing like watching your teammates chase enemies around the map instead of defending points, watching them feed mid one by one, seeing the whole team take on a single engineer while I try to fight the rest of the enemy team. Oh! and I almost forgot that guy that likes to afk for 30 seconds at the start of the match, and his buddy, the guy that afks after losing mid the first time. And i almost forgot that I'm apparently not allowed to win more then 3 games in a row. I've given up all hope on actual pvp as long as the game rates me according to what my teammates do, instead of what I actually do during the match, and just play for rewards like the rest of the players.

Kinda hard when players are just as much to blame as anet, honestly the pvp players that play this game are some of the most garbage people I've ever had the pleasure to play with lmao the play half a match and if ur winning 50%of the time ur allys leave so ur 2v5 and the other team wins or ur teammates sit at home and just stand there all match. Seriously how sad and pathetic does ur life have to be to log into a game just to stand at home or mess with games half way through to assure ur team loses, really have nothing else u could be doing in ur parents basement? Lmao and people wonder why pvp is a kitten fest, its half anets balancing and half the players mentality.this game attracts some real winners lol

You don't. It's just a passing fancy every number of months when I'm feeling really bored. That said, core staff ele is still the maximum possible fun, particularly with that stupid rez trait in the arcane line. Reviving allies faster than an enemy can stomp them is silly.
Oh wait, there is one way: fashion. Get a new set for a character; you will probably want to do something after a successful fashion whirl. It won't last long because this game's PvP is still burning garbage, but you'll probably get a few games out of that high.

I agree. I've been trying to branch over to pvp just for a change from wvw and have found some matches a blast but most are garbage and worse thing is is it's not even the game for the most part lol. One thing I like is in conquest thiefs s/d with scholars and maurader is decent 1v1 in pvp where as in wvw it takes alot to chip through the stats with same build. I was surprised how good s/d was in fights in conquest. It's frustrating to be winning most matches to only have ur own teammates blatently lose on purpose or just leave. Why do they even bother playing the vid? Lol. Gues back to wvw lol

I don't always just PvP, even though I do feel it is the best the game has to offer in terms of how dynamic the combat gets. There are times when I'm into raiding in particular. Or fractals. Or even just doing meta events and farming achievements. Usually when I get bored of one thing I'm doing another.